Christmas comes to the City Museum
Helsinki City Museum will open its Christmas season in the traditional way on the first Advent Sunday 27 November 2011. In Sederholm House, the whole family can prepare for Christmas in the manner of Doghill. Burgher’s House and Tuomarinkylä Manor Museum will open bedecked in their Christmas décor. The traditional carol play will bring us Christmas spirit yet again. The event is free of charge, as the City Museum always is.
The main building of the City Museum at Sofiankatu 4, open between 11 am and 5 pm, is covered by scaffolds due to roof renovation work and the exhibition halls are closed due to exhibition change. Traditional Christmas spirit can, however, be enjoyed at Kino Engel 2, watching documentaries of Christmas celebrations in Helsinki from decades gone by. Christmas discounts will begin at the museum shop, even before Christmas so that gifts oozing with the history of Helsinki can find their way under many a Christmas tree.
Sederholm House at Aleksanterinkatu 18 is the perfect setting for a Christmas family event with the Omens and predictions at Doghill exhibition based on children’s books by Mauri Kunnas. Between noon and 3 pm you will have the chance to meet an old-fashioned Father Christmas, make Christmas decorations, decorate gingerbread as well as sing and play to Christmas tunes performed by the Sakarat Choir. The traditional City Museum’s carol play by the HOL Choir will take place in the courtyard of Sederholm House at 1 pm. There will be a raffle for a packed Christmas gift book basket at the Advent event.
Burgher’s House at Kristianinkatu 12 is a feast for the senses taking you back to the Christmas days of yore. The oldest wooden house in the central city area, over 190 years old, will take us back to Christmas as it was in the 1860s. In the opening Advent event at Burgher’s House from noon to 4 pm, guides will tell about how Christmas was celebrated in the past. The traditional carol play will take place in the courtyard at 2:30 pm. The house will remain in its Christmas decor until 8 January 2012.
Tuomarinkylä Manor Museum at Tuomarinkyläntie 7 will be filled with Christmas spirit as the halls of the Elegance exhibition present the period history of Helsinki. You will have the chance to decorate gingerbread between 2 pm and 4 pm, and the day will end at the Manor’s main entrance with a carol play at 4 pm.
TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS SEASON OPENING
IN THE HELSINKI CITY MUSEUM
ON THE FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT
Sofiankatu 4, open 11 am – 5 pm
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING AND DOCUMENTARY FILMS ON YULETIDE
12 am – 3 pm films on Helsinki Christmas traditions, Kino Engel
Christmas sale at the Museum Shop
Sederholm House, Aleksanterinkatu 18, open 11 am – 5 pm
Children’s exhibition: Omens and predictions at Doghill
FAMILY PROGRAM HOSTED BY TRADITIONAL FINNISH SANTA
12 am – 3 pm traditional gingerbread decoration
Christmas crafts for children
Christmas sing-a-long in Finnish
1 pm traditional carol play in the courtyard
Burgher’s House, Kristianinkatu 12, open 11 am – 5 pm
A BOURGEOIS HOME OF THE 1860S DECORATED FOR CHRISTMAS
12 am – 4 pm 19th century Christmas traditions from Helsinki
2.30 pm traditional carol play in the courtyard
Tuomarinkylä Manor Museum open 11 am – 5 pm
Exhibition: Elegance
CHRISTMAS IN A MANOR
2 pm – 4 pm traditional gingerbread decoration
4 pm traditional carol play in the courtyard
F R E E E N T R Y
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